Guide for Kolkata Property Tax online

Pay property tax for your Kolkata house online

With the announcement of being able to pay your property tax online in Kolkata, it has offered the convenience of paying your property tax which is just one click away. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s web portal with e-payment facility was launched in 2010 in Kolkata. The launched website provides all the details to the tax payers from which they will be able to deposit the KMC property tax without any inconvenience.

Earlier, the tax payers had to stand in long queues in the KMC offices to deposit their tax amount unlike now. This new web portal to pay online tax was designed by the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) at a cost of Rs. 2 crore. The funds to create the new website were provided by the Department of International Development, UK (DFID) under the e-governance programme.

What is property tax?

Property tax is paid by the owner for his property. The tax is levied by the government authorities of the jurisdiction where the property is located. Property taxes can be paid to a federated state, a national government, a municipality or the region.

How to pay online Kolkata property tax?

The link will lead the user to the main page of all the government related services of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

The online tax payment links which will be given on the right side of the page will have various options. The user has to click on the relevant link.

Click on the make online payment link which will further give you many options.

Choose the option of “property tax” which will give you three options.

If you are filing your property tax for the first time, click on the fresh supplementary link and fill in the required information like the assesse number, contact number and the email id. Once all the information is filled, the user has to click on the ‘Pay’ button.

The same follows to the user who has already paid earlier and he has to fill in the required details or fetch it from the previous payments by clicking the ‘Payment’ button.

To get the complete details of the property, the user has to click on the link stating; ‘Fill up property information form’ which is on the left side of the page or click the button stating ‘Details’ and proceed with the payment.

Property tax abbreviations

Few abbreviations to be considered while paying tax online;

PD Bill: Periodic Demand bills, which are issued annually, based on the last decided valuation of the property.

F/S Bill: Fresh/Supplementary bills, which are issued immediately after a hearing to reflect any changes to the earlier issued bills. Fresh bills are also issued after the first assessment of a property.

All unpaid PD bills which were issued prior to the current financial year

Such outstanding bills can only be paid against the LOI.

The advantages of Kolkata property tax online

The e-payment facility in Kolkata makes it easier for the user to pay tax online using credit or the debit card.The website not only caters to the service of paying tax but also helps citizens to download demand along with hearing notices and lodge public grievances and complaints.In

In case if the user has difficulty in understanding, he/she can simply click on the tab with Bengali font on the Kolkata Municipal Corporation page.

This initiation will help in the reduction of corruption in the assessment department and facilitate the collection of property tax.
The chances of the treasury scam will be substantially reduced with the e-payment system in effect.
This technology also offers high security and confidentiality to the customer’s details.

I Niladri Chakraborty have paid property tax of assessee no 411231207616 by online banking from ICICI bank credit card on 2nd July 2012 and reference no is 596592. I have confirmed from bank and they said that captioned amount is alreday deducted,but till date i am unable to get confirmation of payment from KMC.
Details
Assessee no 411231207616
Ward no 123
Name of Owner Smt Swasti Chakraborty and Noni Gopal Chakraborty
Please revert .